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'Body of Lies' stars Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Golshifteh Farahani
Chicago Tribune criticRussell Crowe is one of the wittiest character actors in movies. People forget this because technically he's a movie star. For example: Take the way Crowe, who plays a Central Intelligence Agency spymaster in the busy new thriller " Body of Lies,"...Tags: Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington Post Company, Ridley Scott, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Lawrence M. Goldberg
Lawrence M. "Larry" Goldberg, an eyewitness to the Nuremberg war-crimes trials who later managed post exchanges in postwar Europe and founded several record distribution companies, died of cancer Sept. 23 at his Hunt Valley home. He was 81. Mr....Tags: Orson Welles, Defense, Armed Forces, Death and Dying, International Law
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PhD? May be from Bogus U.
Tribune staff reporterThe network of bogus universities was a family-run venture based in rural Washington state, but the criminal enterprise spanned the globe, with its operators allegedly paying bribes to Liberian officials and selling fake PhDs and MDs as far away as Iran....Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago, Lawyers, Sales, Fraud, Nuclear Power
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'The Spy's Bedside Book,' edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGRAHAM GREENE divided his novels into serious works and "entertainments." They might just as easily have been categorized as stories about Catholicism and espionage, topics that actually were near neighbors in Greene's labyrinthine but fertile inner...Tags: John Le Carre, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Kim Philby, James Fenimore Cooper
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The return of the spy
Secret agents like to stay in the shadows, but these days they're in plain sight. If 2008 hasn't already been the year of the spy, the fall list is going to make it so. This year has already seen an elegant new novel from historical...Tags: The White House, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Public Holidays, National Government
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Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Bullfighting, F Scott Fitzgerald, Metal and Mineral, Thomas Mann, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Your cheatin' art: The literature of infidelity
I have no idea how I feel about John Edwards' extramarital sexual dalliances. The Icarus-like tumble that powerful men take in such cases is a strange and disturbing thing to behold; like a lot of people, I am still sorting out my emotions. No such...Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Literature, Gustave Flaubert, John Edwards, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Thriller further proves genre constraints can inspire real talent.
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe genres of popular fiction - crime, sci-fi, thriller, horror, romance - are too readily dismissed as a realm in which lightly talented novelists thrive by producing potboilers that tax neither writer nor reader overmuch. Dan Brown, John Grisham, Kate...Tags: Richard Price, Illegal Immigrants, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Demographics
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Let me entertain you
Entertainment has a bad name. Serious people learn to mistrust and even to revile it. The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. It gives off a whiff of Coppertone and dripping Creamsicle, the fake-butter miasma of a...Tags: Literature, Philip Roth, Book
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'The Forbidden Kingdom'
Times Movie Critic"The Forbidden Kingdom" is kung fu light, the kind of martial arts family film that results when the director who made "Stuart Little" and "The Lion King" gets to work with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Of course, the great martial arts films of the past didn'...Tags: Cinema Industry, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Family, Eddie Murphy
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'Devil May Care' by Sebastian Faulks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 28, 2008 James Bond was the 20th century's most famous spy and -- almost as certainly -- one of its best-known literary characters. Had he lived, 007's creator, Ian Fleming, would be 100 years old today. A number of new books have been timed to...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Sociology, John F. Kennedy, Casino and Gambling, Joseph Conrad
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Novelist Leif Enger struggled to write post-western 'So Brave, Young, and Handsome'
Books EditorWhen Leif Enger gave up writing crime novels with his brother, Lin, he figured that was it for fiction. Writing as L.L. Enger, the brothers produced five novels in the 1990s featuring a baseball player-turned-sleuth named Gun Pedersen. Despite good...Tags: Walker Percy, Fiction, Thomas Berger
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